The Key to Manifesting

The key to manifesting the life of your dreams is doing things from a state of love rather than a state of fear. This shift from fear to love is really at the heart of all the teachings of the law of attraction.

The first step in making this shift is to learn to tell the difference between the energetic nature of love and fear.

We all know what fear feels like. It starts in the gut as a tightening or knotting, and is followed by agitation and a desire to push back from whatever we think is causing the emotion. This “pushing away” from the perceived cause of fear is what we should be watching for. If we become conscious of this reaction as it happens, we can start to recognize the energetic nature of fear. Fear is always a resistance, a pushing away.

Love by nature attracts, and fear by nature repels. If you are constantly in a state where you repel things, it is very hard energetically to attract anything you value. You might accidentally bump into something you want while pushing away from something you don’t like, but the thing you want won’t stick around if you continue to repel through fear. Attracting (moving towards) and repelling (pushing away) are opposite forces.

The important point here is that since each of these states has different vibrations, you can’t be in both states at the same time. Making the conscious shift to a life centered in love is the quickest shortcut to taking full advantage of the law of attraction in your life.

So, how do you initiate the shift to a more loving state?

Experiencing certain emotions increases the brain’s circuits for those emotions. The more you allow yourself to feel love, the more you cultivate it, the easier and more often you will experience that emotion in the future. Therefore, it is extremely important to train your brain for love.

There are many practices for cultivating love. The one I use most often I call “being love”. To practice this technique, simply sit in a comfortable position and close your eyes. When you begin to feel relaxed, notice your identification with your body and mind. Then, think of someone or something that you love. As this emotion comes into your awareness, begin to identify with it in the same way you identify with your body and mind. Bring your sense of self into the center of the emotion and feel it all around you. Imagine that love is all that is in your awareness, as if every other object is actually wrapped in and suffused with love. When you hear a sound or feel something, extend your love to that thing. Feel love wrap around it like an embrace. Continue to do this for at least ten minutes. Open your eyes and pay attention to any changes that may have taken place, then go about your day.

The act of loving is an act of embracing or attracting. If we are predominantly moving away from things through fear, it makes it impossible to attract all the things we want into our life. As we’ve seen, they are opposite forces. By focusing on love, we shift our flow of energy to one of acceptance and attraction. Then anything and everything we want in life is effortlessly attracted to us by law.